Envelop



J. A. DELAUGHTER.

ENVELOP.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 28. W18.

Patented May 20, 1919.

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ENVELOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 20, 1919.

Application filed October 28, 1918. Serial No. 260,002.

To 077 whom it may concern.

Be it known that I. JAMES A. DELAL'GI-I- ran. a citizen of the UnitedStates. residing at Bonita. in the county of Morehouse and State ofLouisiana. have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEnvelops. of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to envelops. and the general object of theinvention is to provide an envelop made of one sheet of paper so foldedas to form two sealable compartments so that an inclosure may be placedin one of'these compartments and this compartment sealed. while theother compartment is left open for the deposit therein of a money order.postal note. or a further communication, if desired.

Often times on rural mail delivery routes. it. is necessary-to give aletter to the postman unsealed and to hand him the money wherewith toprocure a money order or postalnote. which he is afterward to insert inthe letter and seal the letter and forward it to its address. Underthese circumstances. the communication is liable to beread by thepostman and sometimes it is distinctly inadvisable that the carriershould know the contents of the letter. Not onlyis this the case withregard to letters given to a rural carrier. but often times the lettersare given to friends to post in a town with the necessity of having aninclosure inserted.

The envelop which I have devised is designed to obviate the chance ofhaving the inclosure read by providing an envelop with two compartments,an inner and an outer. the letter being inserted within the innercompartment and sealed. leaving the outer compartment open for thereception of a check, postal note or money order. The outer compartmentmay be then sealed, thus sealing the whole letter and the letter posted.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings. wherein Figure1 is a plan view of an envelop blank;

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the envelop looking from the rear;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and i Fig. 4 is a sectionon the line 4l4 of Fig. 2.

Referring to these drawings, it will be seen from Fig. 1, that the blankfrom which my envelop is made is formed to provide a front portion 10having a sealing flap 11 attached thereto at the top and a flap 12attached to the bottom, with a sealing flap 13 formed at the bottomthereof. The flap 12 is designed to be disposed in confronting relationto the flap 10 and the back of the envelop is formed by two laterallydisposed flaps ll attached to the ends of the portion 10. these flaps14: at their ,lower edges having upwardly bent margins 15. These flaps11 are of such length that when they are folded over upon the flap 12.they will overlap and the margins 15 are gummed upon their inside facesas at 16 while the flaps 13 and 11 are also gummed upon their innerfaces as at 17.

In forming an envelop from the blank above described, the flap 12 isdisposed in confronting relation to the inner face of the flap 10. Theflaps 14 are. then turned down upon the flap 12 and their ends arecaused to adhere to each other, the marginal folds 15 being folded overupon the face of the portion 10 and caused to adhere thereto. There isthen provided an envelop comprising two compartments. with anintermediate wallseparating the two compartments and with a flap 18which is adapted to close one of these compartments and a flap 11 ofgreater depth than the flap 13. which is adapted to be folded over so asto entirely seal and close the envelop. It will thus be seen that awritten inclosure may be disposed within the compartment closed by theflap 13, then later on a money inclosure may be disposed within theother compartment and the letter sealed by turning down the flap 11. Itwill be seen that this envelop may be cheaply made, and it may be usedfor a Variety of purposes, and that it is very convenient.

I claim An envelop of the character described formed of a. blank havinga front portion. a back flap attached to the bottom thereof and adaptedto be folded into confronting relation thereto, this front portion andthe back flap being formed with sealing flaps, the sealin fiap attachedto the back flap being less 111 depth than the sealing flap attached tothe front portion and lateral flaps attached to the ends of the frontportion having a length sufiicient to overlap each other, the innerfaces of said lateral flaps along the bottom margins thereof beingprovided with adhesive and one end of one of the lateral flaps beingprovided with adhesive, said lower adhesive covered margins of thelateral flaps being folded over upon and caused to adhere to the lowermargin of the front flap when the envelop is folded whereby to providean envelop having two 10 compartments and two sealing flaps.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

JAMES ALEN DELAUGHTER.

Witnesses:

H. S. PETERS,

FLOYD KILCREAS.

